Tom D. Crouch and Peter L. Jakab The Wright Brothers: And The Invention ofThe Aerial Age. Washington D.
C. National Geographic, 2003A series of documents and rare photos, which depicts their ideas of windtunnel and the records, the shattered. Such as time aloft, altitude,distance covered, and more. Helpful and easy to understand.
Judy Baker. Celebrating a century of flight; two men, One extraordinarydream. Washington, D. C.
N. A. S. A. Publication, 2002.
A pamphlet that contains information from the first flight to space travel. Very interesting and useful information. Chiles Encyclopedia Book 6: F Reference Page 42 Published 1998. A quick reference item for anything that starts with F. It has some facts but not too much information on the first flightThe Wright Brothers-First Flight, 1903.
Ibis Communications; Inc. Copyright 1997. This site has quotes from when early construction of the plane wasaccruing. Easy to read and understand and lots of useful information. The Wright Brothers .
Copyright 1999. http://www. kyrene. k12. az.
us. htmlThe site has a lot of information about their childhood and their beginningdreams. Very helpful in the research and understanding of my topic. Kelly Fred C.
The Wright Brothers: A BiographyAuthorized by Orville Wright. New York. Harcourt, Brace and Co. 1943. This helped me find out the good and bad of the Wright Brothers and some ofthe planes that failed. Freudenthal, Elsbeth E.
Flight into History: The Wright Brothers and TheAir Age. Norman, University of Oklahoma press. 1949. This helped me find out how they got obsessed with the learning of flying. Photographs/DrawingsOrville’s sketch of the toy helicopter”The Wright Family” US Centennial ofFlight Commission.
2003. www. centennialofflight. gov. I used this document toview some of their earlier ideas.
Blueprint of the 1903 Wright Flier. “The First Flight (1903) “US Centennialof Flight Commission. 2003. www. centennialofflight.
gov. Iusedthisdocument to view how the Wright flier was builtA photograph of Wilbur and Orville. “After the First Flight” US Centennialof Flight Commission. 2003.
www. centennialofflight. gov. I used this on mypicture presentation. Photo of Wilbur Wright.
“1900 Glider experiments. “US Centennial of FlightCommission. 2003. www. centennialofflight. gov.
I used thisonmyphotopresentation. The Wright Home Dayton, Ohio. “The Wright Family” US Centennial of FlightCommission. 2003. www.
centennialofflight. gov. I used this formyphotopresentation. The 1900 Kite. “1900 glider experiments.
“US CentennialofFlightCommission. 2003. www. centennialofflight. gov. I used this photo to examine how they flewtheir first kite.
DocumentsWest Side News. “Business”. US Centennial of Flight Commission. 2003. Www. centennialofflight.
gov. I used this document to view what was going onaround that time. WingCalculations. “1900GliderExperiments”USCentennialofCommission. 2003.
www. centennialofflight. gov. I used this document to help me learn the rangeof the plane. Secondary sourcesTheodore Rowland, Wilbur andOrvilleWright.
NewYork,MarshallCavedish,1988. I used this bibliography about Wright Brothers to study mostly whathappened after the first flight. Donald Lopez, Flight, US Weldon Owen Inc, 1995. I used this to get somequick information about my topic. Curtis Prendergast, The First Aviators, Alexandria, Virginia, Time LifeBooks, 1967.
I used this book to learn about some of the earlier aviatorsbefore the Wrights. By the Editors of American Heritage, History of Flight, 1962. This book didnot have much about the Wright flyer but I used what was in there aboutbefore the Wrights. Margaret Hudson, The Wright brothers, Chicago, Heinemann Library, 1999. Iused this book to study about the Wright family and their young years.
Fred Howard, Wilbur and Orville, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. This bookprovided good pictures of the Wrights and the Wright flyer. Gorge Sullivan, The Wright Brothers, Broadway, New York, scholastic, 2002.
This was a good book that short and I could read the whole thing in a week. Henk Tennekes, The Simple Science of Flight, Cambridge, Massachusetts, TheMIT Press, 1997. I compared this book with the others to see what type ofresearch on science the Wrights did.”The Wright Family” US Centennial of Flight Commission, Oct.19.2003,
